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Barriers to Global Electronic Commerce

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E-Commerce and Intelligent Methods

Part of the book series: Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing ((STUDFUZZ,volume 105))

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This chapter addresses factors, which play limiting role in international trade. There were discussed main barriers in general with an emphasis on procedural barriers. These barriers are connected with archaic, paper-based bureaucracy consuming a lot of efforts, time and money. They can be eliminated or reduced by multi-aspect trade facilitation.

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Niedwiedzinski, M. (2002). Barriers to Global Electronic Commerce. In: Segovia, J., Szczepaniak, P.S., Niedzwiedzinski, M. (eds) E-Commerce and Intelligent Methods. Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, vol 105. Physica, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7908-1779-9_1

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